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Ornan (Araunah) was a Jebusite who sold his threshing floor to King David, which later became the site of Solomon's temple.

Ornan the Jebusite, also called Araunah, owned the threshing floor on which the angel of the LORD stood when David saw the plague that was devastating Israel after his census (2 Samuel 24:16–25; 1 Chronicles 21:15–28). At the prophet Gad's instruction David purchased the threshing floor and offered sacrifices there to stop the plague. This site—on Mount Moriah, traditionally identified with the location of Abraham's sacrifice—became the location where Solomon built the Jerusalem temple (2 Chronicles 3:1), making Ornan's threshing floor one of the most theologically significant pieces of real estate in the biblical narrative.